Anyone who also completed the Scepter of the Shifting Sands can also ring the gong during the Ten Hour War and earn the mount and title, but once the war ends both become unavailable. But that one lucky player who rang the gong will be rewarded with a one-of-a-kind Silithid mount, called the Black Qiraji Battle Tank, and given the in-game honorific of Scarab Lord, perhaps the most prestigious title in all of Warcraft history.

At the end of that war, the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj will officially open (along with an easier 20-person raid) for everyone. The first player to craft the Scepter of the Shifting Sands and ring the gong to open the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj will trigger the Ten Hour War, unleashing hundreds of monsters on Azeroth for-you guessed it-10 hours. Doing this would involve completing several of Classic's hardest 40-person raids as well as killing enough insects in Silithus-the zone where the Gates are located-to turn in a whopping 42,000 of their carapaces.

While servers worked to gather the necessary resources, WoW Classic's most hardcore guilds were racing to complete an epic, 31-part questline to build the Scepter of the Shifting Sands. With cooking ingredients, herbs, leathers, and ore, players are looking at around 3,850,000 individual items that have to be turned into quest givers. Alliance players need to craft 800,000 linen bandages while Horde players have to amass 250,000 of the rarer mageweave bandages-and that's just the start. It requires the Horde and the Alliance to cooperate and each gather an enormous number of crafting resources in order to prepare for the conflict with the Qiraji. The first part of the event is called the War Effort.

At the same time, hardcore guilds raced to complete a daunting series of quests to rebuild the mystical Scepter of the Shifting Sands to ring an ancient gong that would break the seals on the Gates and unleash the Qiraji armies on Azeroth. Opening the gates was one of WoW's most ambitious world events ever, requiring entire server communities to work together. A thousand years earlier, the Qiraji were imprisoned within their kingdom after trying to destroy the continent of Kalimdor, and they've spent those long years building their strength with help from their god, C'thun. Opening the Gates of Ahn'Qiraj is not for the faint of heart.

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